Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 23:11:11 +0100 From: Anand Buddhdev <arb@anand.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package/port dependency failures (solved) Message-ID: <20021117221111.GA19793@anand.org> In-Reply-To: <3DD6946B.1030701@owt.com> References: <20021116145444.GS5846@anand.org> <3DD6946B.1030701@owt.com>
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:54:35AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: [cut] > You can break anything when you go out of the way to do it. If you had > updated the links in the database "pkgdb -F", I think it would have > still found that sysconftool was a R-deps, at least, it was when I did > a make search right now. > > That is part of what portupgrade does for you. You can do things like > "portupgrade -ruf sysconftool" and it would have updated sysconftool > and everything that used it. Since courier changed 2 months ago, you > could have run "portupgrade -Ruf courier" and it would have rebuild > courier and everything it uses. The "-uf" option would have rebuilt > courier and updated the links. > > Portupgrade appears to check the database by running "pkgdb -F" before > and after and keeps things hooked together. It is everybodies friend :). Thanks for this tip Stewart! Works great. This tool should become part of the base system. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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